Episode #034: Extraordinary Wildfires - Fingerprints of Catastrophe from High-temp Events

Summary

This episode of The Randall Carlson Podcast dives into the Younger Dryas Boundary and the catastrophic events it triggered, as evidenced by scientific papers. The discussion includes the dramatic environmental changes in the Channel Islands, questioning the influence of climate change versus potential alternate causes. Randall explores the implications of the Lake Missoula hypothesis and a 2018 study from the Comet Research Group about a significant biomass-burning episode occurring around 12,800 years ago.

Key takeaways

• 1Younger Dryas Boundary is linked to catastrophic events represented by scientific studies.
• 2The environmental shift in the Channel Islands transitioned from forests to grasslands due to potential catastrophic events.
• 3Critics of the climate change attribution to these transitions are challenged to consider other driving forces.
• 4Lake Missoula's filling and draining is presented as a significant hypothesis during the Younger Dryas.
• 5A 2018 paper from the Comet Research Group discusses an Extraordinary Biomass-burning Episode occurring approximately 12,800 years ago.

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Transcript excerpt

That's ancientnutrition.com code protein. This is Cosmographia, the Randall Carlson Podcast. And welcome back, ladies and gentlemen, to the Cosmographia Podcast with Randall Carlson. We are joined as usual by Brad. How are you doing tonight, Brad? Hey, guys. I'm good. I'm here. All right. Mike. Howdy, guys. Doing good over there? Absolutely. Wearing my nice purple shirt. Nice shirt. Looks great. Yeah, it does. And I am Russ. I'm Kyle. How's it going? And Randall. Yes, that's me. That is you. The storm is lingering. It is. It is. I could have changed it, but it's so spectacular. It is. That I thought I'd keep it up one more episode. Because we will, you know, at some point be talking about what's behind me here. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Because it's an important part of the story. And I get to be the little peon in the corner. That's right. Right. Somewhere Brad's in there. Yeah, I don't know why, but Brad keeps showing up in a lot of my photographs. Yeah, it's strange. I've noticed that. I know. Yeah. You've noticed that, too. There was a plan. The whole idea of what happened to the Clovis people. Where did they go? Why do we not find burials? You know, that's, to me, a very interesting question. And so anything that might shed light on that, I think, is valuable. Because here was the culture that occupied North America right up to the very end of the Pleistocene. And that's kind of where we could pick up with Kenneth's work that we started into last week, which was wildfire and abrupt ecosystem disruption on California's Northern Channel Islands at the Allerode-Younger-Driest Boundary. ...

Excerpt from Kosmographia, Jun 19, 2020. Rights remain with the original creators. Hear the full episode at the source.